Security Tools Rationalization Workshop

Identify the right tools for your security framework

Executive Overview

With the vast number of security tools available today, organizations are becoming overwhelmed with the increasing costs to maintain them and the complexities of integrating multiple tool sets for real-time asset visibility, effective cybersecurity and holistic IT operation management.

Many companies have security tools that are not being utilized for a full return on investment (ROI). Not only are many of these tools expensive, but they also provide similar capabilities causing customers to waste valuable resources in license fees and maintenance costs. Other problems include poor integration with other technologies, steep learning curves for operations personnel and conflicting or incorrect reporting from a visibility, control and security perspective.

Objectives

In order to deliver secure business and mission outcomes that reduce risk, lower costs and enable informed decision making, WWT utilizes best of breed standards and ideation techniques to help customers map the genome of their IT infrastructure. WWT believes you cannot defend what you cannot see, therefore it is imperative to fully evaluate the disposition of your infrastructure by engaging the right subject matter experts. Establishing a baseline through the lens of standards, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, helps organizations determine the full extent of where to focus and mitigate risk for a secure and reliable environment. This is made possible by mapping tools to the appropriate focus areas within your framework.

Benefits

WWT provides a customized Tools Rationalization Workshop for your organization that enables you to further understand your current capabilities, identify any gaps and offer comprehensive courses of action to ensure your IT infrastructure stays healthy operationally in lieu of emerging threats and capability gaps.

We understand the ability to connect multiple technologies can be difficult and sometimes confusing. We partner with our customers to ensure we understand their processes and environments before making any recommendations. Through the use of our Advanced Technology Center, we have the ability to demonstrate several integrations in order to alleviate risk and concerns.

Software tools that deal with network security can run on many disparate applications. WWT developed a Business Insight Support System that ties output from software solutions into one web-based portal, functioning as a single touch point for all network security data.

For most organizations, the ability to demonstrate compliance to an assessment program directly correlates to the maturity of their cyber security program. Learn more about WWT’s approach to integrated endpoint security architecture for our federal customers.

Endpoint security must be part of an overall security architecture and strategy. If all the areas referenced in this paper are addressed and integrated within an environment, the result will be a level of protection that far exceeds anything a single point product can provide.

Organizations understand that providing users with secure access can be challenging and strenuous. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an enterprise program that focuses on ensuring that authorized people and devices have the appropriate access at the right time.

WWT's Security Operations Center (SOC) Assessment will assess each of the foundation-level elements of people, process, and technology to identify your organization’s overall strengths and weaknesses, current maturity ratings, and provide recommendations for improvement.